InternetMovie Downloads Take on Ticket Sales in France

Cinema industry continues to cope with piracy from peer-to-peer technology.

Source: Reuters French movie buffs are illegally downloading at least as many films as they pay to see in cinemas, a study showed on Wednesday. Alpa, a cinema industry group that fights audiovisual piracy, commissioned the study to compare the numbers of films downloaded on the Internet using peer-to-peer technology with cinema ticket sales. People in France illegally downloaded more than 13.5 million films in May, according to the study, while the National Centre for Cinematography recorded cinema ticket sales of 12.2 million for the month. "This is a major phenomenon that could endanger the cinema and audiovisual industry," Alpa representative Frederic Delacroix told French daily Le Figaro. RELATED ARTICLES Libraries Enter the Age of iPod Downloads Blockbuster Buys Movie... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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